Edward-said Quote by Christopher Hitchens

“It was at a conference in Cyprus in 1976, where the theme was the rights of small nations, that I first met Edward Said.…

— Christopher Hitchens

“I certainly didn't concur with Edward on everything, but I was damned if I would hear him abused without saying a word. And I…

— Christopher Hitchens

“Unlike most boys, who considered their lousy luck the way the world worked, accepting it as a sheep accepts a shearing, Edward resented his…

— Steven Decker

“Edward was now expressing himself on the subject of the French King, drawing upon a vocabulary that a Southwark brothel-keeper might envy. Some of…

— Sharon Kay Penman

“Edward had the odd notion that after years of drab motionlessness, his entire world had suddenly begun to spin about him. He’d had that…

— Courtney Milan

“Edward was at the stage of drunkenness in which the ego glows like a coal, and brilliant people become more inspired, but in which…

— William Styron

Edward grimaced, and I knew it was in objection to the word okay. He probably would have used something more like wonderful or perfect…

— The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn

“I am not a terrorist. The death of the innocent is not something I take pleasure in—unlike you people. But hard choices must be…

— Stephen England

“Edward was dead. The magnitude of the news reverberated through me, thickening the air. His suffering was over. Yet what had he left behind?…

— Ella March Chase

“To be attacked by a Gore Vidal, or an H.L. Mencken, one of the great wordsmiths of American criticism, while surely unpleasant, must have…

— Thomas E. Woods Jr

“With a perversity of judgement, which must be attributed to his not having by Nature a very strong head, the Graces, the Spirit, the…

— Jane Austen

“Misunderstandings and neglect occasion more mischief in the world than even malice and wickedness.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe